[dramatic music]
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[Sixpence None the Richer's "Kiss Me" playing]
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- ♪ Kiss me ♪
[singing in Japanese]
[music fades]
[music resumes]
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[zipper dragging]
- [speaking Japanese]
[ominous music]
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- [panicked breathing]
[grunting]
[whimpering]
[speaking Japanese]
[lighter clicking]
- [speaking Japanese]
[gurgles and chokes]
- [speaking Japanese]
- Hai.
- [groaning]
- [speaking Japanese]
- Hai. [speaking Japanese]
- [speaking Japanese]
- [sighs]
- [speaking Japanese]
- Gomen nasai.
[speaking Japanese]
- [speaking Japanese]
[applause]
- [speaking Japanese]
[laughter]
- [speaking Japanese]
- Hai.
- [speaking Japanese]
[in English] What do you think?
There's a service entrance here,
bartenders and stuff.
- Mm-hmm. - I'm thinking cozy.
- Uh-huh. - Like a living room.
Like, flowers everywhere, low booths.
I've already bought all the liquor.
- How can you afford all this?
- What do you mean? I save.
I've been saving for, like, two fucking years.
The builders say it'll be ready in a few months.
- So it's happening, huh?
- Yeah, it's happening.
But I need to make a profit, like, right away.
So...I know I can with the right team.
- Sam, you know how much I make at Onyx.
Plus Duke kind of leaves me alone, so...
- But you know that whatever we're making,
Duke's making a shit ton more.
And the sleazy owners. I won't be a sleazy owner.
How's this?
I'll raise your weekly salary.
Plus 25% of commissions and upsells.
Come on!
This'll be ours. I can't do this alone.
- Look, Sam, I'm...I'm sorry. Really.
But a new business-- too much risk.
- Too much--Luna, wait.
- Look, Sam, if you want to be a mama-san, just be a mama-san.
- What is your problem? - I am not judging.
It's just-- - You're judging.
- How does your boyfriend fit into all this, huh?
Isn't he Chihara-kai?
You think he won't expect his cut
or take over completely?
- No, we keep our work and personal life separate.
- Come on, Sam.
You must know by now that's impossible.
- By now? Am I missing something?
- Okay, it's none of my business.
I'll see you tonight.
[muffled dance music]
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- [speaking Japanese]
- [whispering] Pol, where are you?
Are you okay? We miss you.
We're feeling your absence tonight.
Can you get your hot Slavic ass down here now?
[footsteps approaching]
- [speaking Japanese]
[indistinct chatter]
- What's new with the club?
- Nothing.
- What did Luna say?
- Huh? What do you mean?
- You said you'd offer her a job.
- Oh. Yeah.
She said she'll think about it. We'll see.
- You okay? - Mm-hmm.
Pol hasn't answered her phone all day.
She didn't show up to work. I called Miralina
and they said that they haven't seen her
since last week.
- Maybe she wants to be alone.
- Why?
- Sometimes people need time to think.
- Mm, I don't know. It's not like her.
How's work?
- Same.
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[meat sizzling]
- [moaning]
[phone ringing]
- [speaking Japanese] Shh.
Hello?
- Jake, it's getting harder and harder
to get a hold of you.
Where are you?
- I'm out with a source right now.
- Okay, listen, have you heard anything about Tozawa
being formally charged?
- What? No.
- Something about Katagiri having new evidence.
- Evidence? What evidence?
- I don't know. I'll ask around.
Listen, you know the suspect who was brought in yesterday
on the Kaori Shoda murder?
- Yes. - I need you to go out
to confirm the information about the case.
I think there's a bigger story here
connecting this case
to the others I've been tracking.
- Okay, I'm on it.
- Okay.
- [moans]
[upbeat music]
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- Josh?
Josh Adelstein, is that you?
Dave Fisch from Rockbridge.
Dude, come here, come here, come here.
Oh, man.
Whoa, you look different, man.
- What are you doing here?
- Seeing the sights. Taking in Japan.
What are you doing here?
- I work here.
- No shit? Doing what?
- For a Japanese newspaper.
- Holy shit. Seriously?
That's amazing. - I don't know.
- Are you okay? You look a little--
- No, I just can't figure out
if I'm having a bad blowfish hallucination
or if you're actually standing in front of me.
- Maybe this will clear the cobwebs.
♪ Anything you can do, I can do better ♪
♪ I can do anything better than you ♪
- ♪ No, you can't ♪ - ♪ Yes, I can ♪
- ♪ No, you can't no, you can't ♪
- ♪ Yes, I can yes, I can ♪
Junior year, right?
- Yeah, I was there. - Right? Oh, my God.
You are still the best Frank Butler I've ever seen.
- I gotta go. I gotta get to work.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Wait, hold on.
Let me get you my number.
Call me tonight. My hotel has a great bar.
- Okay. I might be busy working, okay?
- Cool, cool. Got it, got it, got it.
- But it was great to see you. - Great to see you, man.
Go Bruins!
- [speaking Japanese]
- Whoa, I know Kung-fu.
[laughter]
- Oi!
- Hai.
[all laughing and jeering]
- So you really haven't seen her
since Friday morning?
- Yeah. I caught her trying to pack my Pradas for a trip.
- A trip? - Yeah.
She was going away, right?
- Going away? With--with who? Where?
- Look, aren't you guys, like, best mates or something?
Shouldn't you know? - You live with her.
- Barely.
I just stop by long enough to pack up some clothes,
'cause my guy's a pilot, so--
- Awesome. - She's left all her stuff.
She'll be coming back.
- [speaking Japanese]
[cheering]
- Where's Pol?
- Who are we talking about? - Polina.
[laughter]
- Where the fuck is she?
- You think I can keep track
of every girl in love with me?
- Well, I'm worried. I haven't seen her
in four days, and you should be worried.
Who's gonna pay for your shit designer clothes?
[cheering]
[mocking chatter]
- Police said that she filed
three complaints against her boyfriend.
All of them were filed, none of them were followed up,
and then he murdered her.
- I see.
- Put that together with the other women,
that paints a really nasty picture.
- Yes, each case I look into fits a pattern.
- The police ignore warning signs
and young women are getting killed.
This is front-page stuff. Can you make deadline?
- I think so.
- Hey, have you heard anything else about the Tozawa thing?
- Honestly, Jake, it's not a priority right now.
I have to go. - We just have to figure out
if he got charged--
[phone buzzing]
[laughter]
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- [scoffs]
- [speaking Japanese]
[somber music]
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- [clears throat]
[phone buzzing]
[phone ringing]
- [chuckles]
[tense music]
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[lounge music]
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- [singing in Japanese]
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[murmured greetings]
[applause]
[laughter]
[applause]
[lounge music playing]
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- [singing in Japanese]
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[both laughing]
- Mr. Marvin.
Right, right, right, right, right.
He dropped some serious knowledge on us.
- There are things that he taught me
that I still use at my job today.
- Long time ago. - We're getting old, man.
- [chuckles] Yeah.
- Why'd you come to Japan?
- Thought I'd take a year off before grad school at Mizzou.
You know, get some life experience.
And this place has blown my mind, man.
Yeah, I mean, Tokyo, right? It's like--
- Not Missouri. - Not Missouri. Exactly.
- And thank fuck for that.
- Thank fuck for that.
So how's your family?
- I think they're good. You know, I don't really have
much time to check in these days.
I'm busy with work, but-- - Yeah.
I heard that, like, your sister was
in the middle of some, like, heavy treatments, right?
- Who did you hear that from?
[upbeat country music playing]
- I just--I mean, it's Columbia,
so people talk, right?
- People should keep their fucking mouths shut
about shit they don't know about.
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Sorry. Jessica's fine.
And we're keeping in touch
and she's--she's better now. She's healthy, so--
- Good. I'm glad to hear it.
- ♪ Saturday night and the moon is out ♪
♪ I'm gonna head on over to the twist and shout ♪
♪ Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat ♪
♪ When it lifts me up, I'm gonna find my feet ♪
- Want to get out of here?
Want to see the coolest place in Tokyo?
- Yeah.
[electronic pop music]
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[indistinct chatter]
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Not bad, right?
- Muy bueno, my man. Muy fucking bueno.
- You want to grab that booth over there?
I'll get a couple drinks.
I'll meet you on the dance floor.
- Okay.
- [speaking Japanese]
- No bodyguard?
- Do I need one?
- I figured you were followed everywhere you went.
- I'll see you on the dance floor.
- ♪ Thought I was going mad in a hurry ♪
♪ Getting' stressed, makin' excess mess in darkness♪
♪ No electricity ♪
♪ Something's all over me, greasy, insomnia ♪
- Cheers.
- Ne, ne, ne.
- Hey.
- [clears throat]
- Oi!
- Baby, let him talk.
- You fucking piece of shit.
Who got her in that debt, huh? It was you.
- Hey. - Motherfucker.
- No. No.
- Do you want to find out what she knows or not?
- Fuck.
- Oi.
- She's in Yoshino.
- Where the hell is Yoshino?
- Half a day from here in the west.
- When's she back? - Soon.
- Well, baby, go back and ask when soon.
Why are you running away from me?
- Do you know whose men are in there right now?
Tozawa's.
You know how much trouble I could get in
for stirring things up? - Baby, I am worried.
- Don't treat me like a client.
- I'm not.
- You can barely look me in the eye now.
But when you need something, I am your baby.
- What are you talking about?
- You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Nothing has been the same since that night.
You pull away when I reach for you.
- No, I don't. - Don't lie.
- I'm not lying.
This isn't about us. She's my best friend.
- There is no us.
I am Yakuza.
Everything I do has consequences.
- Well, now this is fucking interesting.
Now you are making this about us.
So when you beat the shit out of people
for your boss, that's okay.
That's--that's fine. That's work.
But when I need something, when I need help,
when it's for me, there's consequences.
Fuck you. I thought you were different.
You're not different. You're a thug.
- And what are you? Eh?
Hiring girls to cheat lonely men out of their salary?
What do you call that? A pimp?
- Fuck you.
I'm not forcing anyone to do anything.
- And no one forced Polina.
[clears throat]
This is a dangerous world.
People get hurt.
Sometimes they disappear.
Maybe it's not for you.
[electronic dance music]
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- This place is awesome, dude.
[upbeat music playing]
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- [singing in Japanese]
- [speaking Japanese]
- Ah.
- [groans quietly]
[panting]
[audio distorting]
[guests exclaiming]
- Misaki...
[groans]
- [choking]
- What were you doing before, though?
- I was a model for a while.
- I bet you were real good.
- Flattery will get you nowhere.
- Is that how you two met? When you were modeling?
- You really think I'm going to talk
with you about him?
- I'm just asking about your life.
I'm interested in you. I want to know about you.
[upbeat music playing]
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- Let's just say he came along at a time
when modeling was becoming less interesting to me.
- Fair enough.
Do you love him?
[ominous music]
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- Hey, man, what's going on?
Whoa, hey, get your fucking hands off her.
- Dave--Dave, don't--
Onegaishimasu.
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- Shit--ah, shit, are you all right?
- Yeah, man, I'm fine. - Fuck.
- Come on. Let's get out of here?
- Yeah.
The second to last fucking page.
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You spelled it out beautifully.
And that story would have opened a lot of eyes
if they hadn't fucking buried it.
- I'm glad you think so. Maybe next time.
- I don't know how you do it.
'Cause I'm starting to not see
the fucking point of any of this anymore.
- Jake, I do it despite the indifference
because somebody has to tell the truth.
Someone has to build a wall of information brick by brick,
story by story,
until the facts cannot be ignored.
And then things have to change.
Don't they? - I don't know.
- [gasps]
- [laughs]
- I need your help.
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